Welcome to the Reloading Forum -- Introduce Yourself

[Forum Boss]

Hi,name is Steve from England i shoot Anschutz.17Hmr,Tikka t3 stainless 22-250,steyr Manlicher 30-06 and have just taken delivery of my first 6mm B R.It is made in the U K by a company called R P A.It is a R P A interceptor,which has a pac-nor barrel,quatlite bolt and action and a fibre glass Ian Mcpherson stock,it has been fully bedded and the action has been blueprinted.I am sitting a Niteforce 8-32x56 scope on top and will be reloading my own ammo,so i feel i will be using this site on a reguler basis.I will no doubt be having to ask many questions as this is my first dealings with a hand built precision rifle

Steve,

That sounds like a really nice rig. The Quadlite is a very nice action. I haven't seen a McPherson stock before. Be sure to send us pix of your rifle. You've got all top notch components. That Pac-nor barrel should shoot well with Lapua Scenars and Bergers. Try the 105 Scenars first.,I assume you have an 8 twist bbl).

 

[madmanx]

Cheers,it is a 1 in 8 twist,going to try some 87 grain Hornady v-max with varget powder to start with.

 

[Edac]

Hi all

Cade from the Far North of New Zealand. I am currently developing a 6mmBR rifle based on a Parker Hale TX1200,Mauser 98) action. It features a 22" MAB barrell from Australia with a 1:8 twist and an old but wonderfull Lyman 8x scope with Redfield mounts. The next addition will be a Hogue stock.

This will be my dedicated 100-400m varminter that might see range use if it groups ok. My main reason for joining this forum is to seek advise on accurate loads suitable for the 22" 1:8 barrel. One high-velocity load for small varmints with light projectiles, and also a load for 105g projectiles for goat - sized game.

All help would be appreciated!

Cade

 

[iowain4570]

i'm iowa like to fish and hunt,target shooting with my buddies.

 

[12man]

New to 6BR, grew up shooting & hunting. I live in Alaska so the ground hogs arent like PA or Va. We have marmots & Ground Squirrels. In the process of putting together my first 6BR, blueprinted Rem 700 action, 1-10 twist 24'' Lilja barrel with a Vais brake, Jewell trigger pillar bedded in a HS Precision stock using a 6.5x20 Zeiss scope. primary use is varmints,marmots, squirrels, coyotes & wolves) occassional range work,100-500 YDS).I have a bunch of Varget & N135, plan on shooting Lapua 77 gr & Fowler 80 gr. Also have 80 grBergers, 87 V Maxs & 90 gr Lapuas. Any load suggestions? Thanks D

 

[LCSportsman]

Hello everyone;

I am the new guy on the block here. I really appreciate this web site, the forum, all of your experience, willingness to share information & your patience with someone like me that is learning. As some of you may know I am also on the bechrest site forum.

I live in the N.E. CA area. It is not beaches & palm trees here. Very windy at times & clod is spelled with capital letters.

I enjoy this sport very much. I hunt on occasion but punch paper more than anything. I want to shoot competitively & to do so I need to learn much about loading & some tricks of the trade, so to speak.

I have shot pistol competitively, IDPA, & look forward to hopefully being able to at least shoot silhouette with rifle.

I am in my mid 50's but can still learn new things. A little ignorant in some shooting areas but a humble man. This is my first exposure to precision shooting.

LCS

 

[beginner]

Like LCSportsman said, I'm the new guy on the block.
I'm in my early 50's, with my oldest son graduating as a mechanical engineer from the Ohio State University,and All-American smallbore & air rifle shooter & team captain), my daughter in college,formerly an air rifle shooter with Akron), married to an Air Force Airman in Montana, and the youngest in high school.
Just started high power with a service rifle and changed to a T2K recently.
I'm very impressed with the level of knowledge & experience in this forum. One of your members assisted me with some advice on equipment,Reid Perry) and I really appreciate it.
Looking forward to learning a lot from this forum, and appreciate your patience.
Thanks and aloha from hawaii
beginner

 

[JimmyO]

Hey y'all,

I live in Scottsdale Arizona. After some serious saving I purchased a Rem. stainless 700BDL & 3.5X15 Nightforce with one piece 20 MOA base I was ready to take on targets an great unknown distances... after taking my 300WM to the range and putting all my shots into a 15" circle @ 100 yards:, I really caught the bug. I'm waiting on my rifle to get back from Texas Brigade armory in 7-08 and slowly amassing supplies.

 

[mikehenniger]

Greetings to all.

I am here because I developed a wildcat 30cal cartridge based on a 404 rimless case made approximately proportional to the 6mm PPC cartridge back in 1988,,case capacity 60gr H2O.) I never had the opportunity to build the cartridge or a rifle to shoot it for many reasons. Recently the cartridge,,which I called the 308 MCH) form and re-load dies, 60 pieces of brass, and a rifle,,a Ruger 77 MKll short action/lothar walther 24in stainless barrel, 10in twist) was given to me. With a total of less than a box of center fire ammunition shooting experience in the past 62 years, I have become a target shooter.

I am still working on load component combinations, but so far I have been pleased with accuracy and performance. When I have finished with load development, I will probably "publish" my story and my results on this forum. Why? Well, besides pride, I have relied on Internet sites to guide me in what I am doing both as a reloader and as a shooter. This site is the most useful, detailed, informative, and civil site I have yet found. With so many champions posting, it is truly remarkable that I can say the above, yet I have been lurking for eight month on several sites and this site is absolutely unique. I don't know if it was Groucho Marx, or Mark Twain who said, "I would not join any club that would accept me," Not so in this case!

I have been having a lot of fun, and even though the rifle is insuffcient for competition, as am I, I feel I am both getting better and getting the BR bug!

Mike Henniger

 

[jb1000br]

Mike, welcome, and the kind words are much appreciated

Can you tell me how fast your case will move a 240SMK?

Jason

 

[mikehenniger]

Jason,

Not yet, but I will be trying all the Match Kings for velocity and accuracy.

I'm at work right now and my notes are at home. I do have figures for 155s and 168s with RL-15, H4859, and Varget as measured twenty feet in front of a Chrony. I will post for you and if you have suitable software, you might be able to extrapolate for the 240 pending my results.

As a general discussion, the cartridge was designed for the 168 MK as that was the 30 cal MK back in 1988. The chamber length,throat)is optimized for that bullet. My rifle is shooting 155 MKs better than 168s, but I seat them shallow to avoid too big a jump. I want to try 125 gr but the only decent commercial cartridge is the Nosler Varminter which is a boat tail an will end up about .075 off the lands. ,I think a few custom makers have a 125gr flat base, but they are hard to get and expensive.)

As to the heavy MKs, I expect to get much better results than the 308 Win. and slightly better than the 30-06. At least that is how the 155s and 168s turned out.

Mike

 

[mikehenniger]

Jason, here are the velocities for 155 and 168 MKs with several powders. ,Primers are Federal large rifle.)

155 gr MK
Benchmark 46.5 gr 2900
H4895 49.0 gr 3050
Varget 50.5 gr 2895
RL-15 50.5 gr 3025

168 gr MK
H4895 48.0 gr 3050
Varget 50.5 gr 2980
RL-15 51.0 gr 3020
N-150 51.0 gr 2900

These velocities are five shot averages and were measured by a Shooting Chrony about twenty feet in front of the barrel. While I did not have bolt lift or primer problems, I would consider these max loads for now.

November was a terrible month for weather here in Oregon so I have been forming cases. I bought 500 Bell 404s. I use ten steps, form 1-5, trim, ream, neck turn, fire form and FL resize. I hope to get back to the range soon. When I get all my info together I am planning to post it here.

Mike Henniger

 

[Lowrider]

Hi everyone

I'm not kinda new to this forum for I was previous registered as Scoob but due to a computer crash and switch of Internet provider I lost my password and email address so I had to make a new register. I shoot two 6BR's and both are made by Richard's Custom rifles, one has a blue printed Remington 700 action built on his # 7 varmint stock and the other rifle has a Bat SV action built on his Lowrider stock, both have Lilja barrels . I enjoy them both very much and use them on several distances although we don't get the change to shoot Long Range as much as you guys, 600 meters is as far as we can go right now but if everything goes well we should be able to use the 800 meters range next year, looking forward to that.

Kees

 

[jb1000br]

Lowrider, Welcome!

Mike -- I thought I read "80gn h2o Capacity" my bad...155 seems nicely suited to be driven fast with this case...lots of brass work though

JB

 

[mikehenniger]

Jason,

I am interested in how well 125 Noslers shoot as they should go 3200 I think. One thought has crossed my mind and that is necking down to 6.5 mm. You're not kidding re the form work.

I found out Sunday that 440 of the cases I have been forming for the past six weeks all have loose primer pockets with Winchester primers. They are all Bell cases but are not head stamped and that is the apparent reason for the loose pockets. About sixty cases had head stamps, and these primer pockets are tight as ticks.

I am hoping that Federal primers will be tighter. I will go ahead and fire form everything and see what happens.

Mike

 

[jb1000br]

Ouch...russian primers are tighter yet...WW are the smallest i think.

JB

 

[trappst]

Sorry for the thread CPR but I wanted to introduce myself. I've been hangin around for some time and I finally decided to register. I love to shoot, reload and hunt.....I'm a Savage addict and spend most of my time at the SavageShooters site.

Most of my reloading and shooting are done for hunting purposes but I also enjoy killing paper. I don't compete in any formal matches but the info that is here is hard not to read!

Great site folks....look forward to sharing.

Oh, I load for the following:
223 rem
223 AI
22-250 rem
22-250 AI
243 win.
6mm rem
270 win.
270 WSM
30-30 win

221 Fireball will join this list soon.......

 

[Buckshot]

Hi folks. My name is Jeff, I live in western Colorado on a piece of dirt big enough to build a range out to 600 and possibly 1000 yards if I ever muster the ambition. I have been a member on this board for a few weeks but have been lurking quite awhile. Unfortunately, I don't have much to offer you folks but I have already had great results from using information posted here.

When I came here I was getting pretty frustrated, because it didn't seem like any of my hunting size rifles were shooting for beans. I didn't think that primers made much of a difference from brand to brand. I have been using WLRM primers for a long time but about the time they quit plating them I started having accuracy issues with all of my rifles that I used em in. I started with my custom 6.5/284 using the information on your 6.5/284 page. I used all of the same components listed except the primer, which I thought didnt matter much. Finally, I decided to swap primers and used the ones you guys recommended and BINGO it brought my groups from inch and a quarter down to the low 3s.

I have some work to do yet but its really been an eye opener. I have been working on a 6.5x55 swede CZ550 and it had lousy groups out of the box until I found the right powder primer combo. Now I am getting half inch groups from it. I have a whole new outlook when I get behind a rifle now..Thanks to you folks.

I load for
6BR,6.5x55swede,7stw,30-338,6.5-284,22-250 and most of my friends rifles.

I am also quickly becoming a big fan of the savage .17HMR. I heard bad things about savage years ago and didnt think I would ever own one. I didnt think any factory gun could shoot, I thought primers made no difference, I thought Savage made bad guns and I thought bigger was better...In the last year my entire shooting belief system has been turned on its ear.

 

[rayjay]

Hello from Groaning Gwinnett, GA { Buford, actually }.

I'm Ray and have just purchased a Savage with a 6mmBR Douglas/SSS bbl { it should arrive at the transfer dealer within the hour }. I ordered a bunch of reloading goodies from Midway that arrived yesterday and am ready to get started and had a couple of Q's that I will post in a new thread .

In December I joined South River Gun Club in Conyers . If any here are also SRGC members I am easy to spot, I have the nice alum cart that everyone likes. Please say hi when you see me.

I reload 22mag, 223, 6mmBR, 260 Rem, 6.8SPC, 308 and 9mmP.

rj

 

[skipper]

I am from Houston, Texas. I just purchased all the components for a complete custom .204. I bought a Lilja barrel, Stolle Panda action, Shehane Tracker stock and Nightforce 12-42X56 BR scope. I intend to shoot varmints at ranges from ~100-500 yards and compete mostly against myself at the local ranges around town. I am a 52 year old Ex-Marine Drill Instructor who works for the local electric company in power system operations. I have shot competitively back in the Marines but, that was 25 years ago. I have enjoyed reading the many fine articles on this board and look forward to learning everything I can. You guys may have to help me break some of the old bad habits I have picked up but I am very willing to listen and try new things. I appreciate the way you welcome new members and the patients you have with explaining things that might be new concepts to others. I'm sure I will have plenty of questions, especially when I get my new rifle and start the breaking in and load development process. Thanks in advance.